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Just won't idle - losing the plot - what else can I try?!
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<blockquote data-quote="Dickie524" data-source="post: 577415" data-attributes="member: 21482"><p>We-ell - if the distributor gear is brass, and say it has lost a tooth r broken several teeth - there is a potential that the timing would be all over?. I might be tempted to pop the dizzy cap off and see if the rotor arm can be rotated by hand - will tell you if there is 'play' at the other end...</p><p></p><p>AS for why that would have led to low compression elsewhere I'd be struggling - unless somehow a fractured piece of gear could have got trapped by one of the piston skirts and scored the inside of one of the bores...?</p><p></p><p>Hmm.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps someone more familiar with VW engines than me will know whether it's possible to see the inside of the dizzy gear by looking through the sump plug?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dickie524, post: 577415, member: 21482"] We-ell - if the distributor gear is brass, and say it has lost a tooth r broken several teeth - there is a potential that the timing would be all over?. I might be tempted to pop the dizzy cap off and see if the rotor arm can be rotated by hand - will tell you if there is 'play' at the other end... AS for why that would have led to low compression elsewhere I'd be struggling - unless somehow a fractured piece of gear could have got trapped by one of the piston skirts and scored the inside of one of the bores...? Hmm. Perhaps someone more familiar with VW engines than me will know whether it's possible to see the inside of the dizzy gear by looking through the sump plug? [/QUOTE]
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